I can't copy nature.
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
To work from nature is to improvise.
Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature.
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.
The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.
The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.
Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!
We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the rains that feed the soil, so we find our courage in the pattern of living things around us. They stand through storm and tempest. They grow and renew themselves. Like a grove of young oaks, we remain strong.
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.
How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.
I think connecting natural elements and musicology is probably pretty idiosyncratic of me, so it is hard to imagine anyone else going down that route.
Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.
The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.
Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.
I love taking elements and colours from nature and then distorting them somehow.
Sometimes you feel like you have to do research to make something, other times you know you don't feel it so much.
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
